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The word 'bounds'

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Use in varieties of Scots

Dialect map - Usage over time
boundsOccurrences normalised per million wordsOccurrencesAuthors
Total Corpus3.7128
ORK - Orkney
SHD - Shetland
TON - Tonge
NNB - North Northern B (Caithness)
NNA - North Northern A (Black Isle)
MNA - Mid Northern A
MNB - Mid Northern B
SNO - South Northern
ABN - Aberdeen
DOR - General Northern
NEC - North East Central
SEC - (South) East Central 7.7 3 2
WCE - West Central 4.6 1 1
DUN - Dundee
EDN - Edinburgh
GLA - Glasgow 16.3 3 1
AYR - Ayrshire 13.1 1 1
LAL - General Central 5.3 4 3
SEA - South East (Borders)
SWE - South West (Galloway)
DUL - Donegal (East Donegal)
WUL - West Ulster (Letterkenny / L'Derry)
CUL - Coleraine Ulster (North Antrim)
BUL - Ballymena Ulster (Mid Antrim)
SUL - South Antrim (Between Sixmilewater and Belfast)
BEL - Eastern Ulster (Belfast)
PUL - Peninsular Ulster (Ards)
EUL - East Antrim (Larne)
GUL - General Ulster
SYN - Synthetic (no region)

Occurrences of bounds in Corpus

In order to avoid violating copyright law and abide by 'fair use', only up to the first five occurrences of the search term are displayed for each article.

(South) East Central

Burnett, Colin A Working Class State of Mind, (Piermont 2021 ISBN: 978-1914090158) Central - East Coast, prose
lace that's the yin hing that bounds us aw taegether. Fur every ma on page 123
Bruce hus come oan leaps and bounds these past couple ae weeks. G on page 156

2 matches

Purdie, David C. Lallans 73 - The Glesgy Screwdriver, (Lallans Magazine 2008) Central - Midlothian, prose
raired, "This room is out of bounds - and why are you not in uni on page 97

1 matches

West Central

Wilson, Rab Accent O the Mind, (Luath 2006 ISBN: 978-1905222322) Central - New Cumnock, poetry
n Lourdes is labelled 'Out of bounds'! on page 93

1 matches

Glasgow

Bennett, Peter The Bothy (Part Two), (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
my breath fae its nostrils it bounds doon fae its position above a
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Coyle Loyal, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
he winks at the heavy boay an bounds up the stair leavin him an th
1 matches

Bennett, Peter Wan Goal tae the Good, (ABCTales.com 2021) Central - Glasgow, prose
room. Palpable, it is. McDade bounds away fae the table tae invest
1 matches

Ayrshire

Begg, James A. The Man's the Gowd for A' That, (Carn Publishing 2012 ISBN: 978-0956755049) Central, prose
... Nou depairtit the earthly bounds o their mortal cley, may thei on page 54

1 matches

General Central

Marenich, Margaret Lallans 84 - Awa wi’t, (Lallans Magazine 2014) Central, prose
ne, raxin for it an raxin her bounds. But antrin times, if a thing on page 17

1 matches

Morton, Elaine Hamethocts, (Evertype 2010 ISBN: 978-1782012399) Central, poetry
An frae the reuch bounds sallied out on page 48

1 matches

Corbett, John Lallans 70 - Owersettins o Modren Drama intae Scots, (Lallans Magazine 2007) Central, prose
s haes ettle’t tae push the bounds o Scots on stage tae the verr
™s Phaedra, Morgan pushes the bounds o whit we expeck o a Scots-sp
2 matches

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